KUMS044 Work, Economy, and Culture (5 cr)

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Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish
Responsible organisation:
Department of History and Ethnology
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

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This study module uses literature to delve into the main issues of contemporary working life in the cultural and creative sectors.

Description

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Learning outcomes

EN: On completion of the course, the student will

  • be able to examine culture from the perspectives of creative work, entrepreneurship and expertise

  • be familiar with contemporary changes and challenges in culture, work and the economy, as well as with different theories of work and the economy, and

  • be able to dentify different forms of work in cultural sectors and economies from art to cultural production and management. 

Additional information

EN: Recommended for majors to be taken in the 4th or 5th year of study. 

Description of prerequisites

Kulttuurialan työelämä KUMA005

Compulsory prerequisites

Study materials

EN: The instructor in charge will provide and/or inform about the literature to be used in the independent work. For the book examination, three works from the following list will be chosen:

  • Armstrong, Kelly 2015: Managing the Commons in the Knowledge Economy.

  • Hann, Chris & Parry, Jonathan (eds.) 2018: Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject.

  • Kwon Jong, Bum and Lane, Carrie M (eds.) 2016: Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence.

  • McRobbie, Angela 2015: Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries.

  • Raunig, Gerald, Ray, Gene & Wuggenig, Ulf (eds.) 2015: Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’.

  • Standing, Guy 2011: Precariat: New Dangerous Class.

  • Susskind, Richard & Susskind, Daniel 2015: The Future of Professions. 

Completion methods

Method 1

Description:
Independent study: essay, book exam or reading group.
Evaluation criteria:
The grading scale in all completion modes will be numerical: 0-5. The grade will be based on the evaluation of the assignments that measure the extent to which the learning goals have been achieved.   In modules organized in the form of contact teaching, completion requires 80% attendance.
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Method 2

Description:
Contact teaching may be organized in some years.
Evaluation criteria:
The grading scale in all completion modes will be numerical: 0-5. The grade will be based on the evaluation of the assignments that measure the extent to which the learning goals have been achieved.   In modules organized in the form of contact teaching, completion requires attendance.
Select all marked parts
Parts of the completion methods
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Independent study (5 cr)

Type:
Independent study
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
Finnish

Teaching

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Participation in teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
Finnish
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